Ventral lateral geniculate nucleus afferents to the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the cat

Brain Research

Volumn 725, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 247-251

  Pu, Mingliang ^a   Pickard, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Circadian rhythm; Geniculohypothalamic tract; Intergeniculate leaflet; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Neuropeptide Y; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; FEMALE; INNERVATION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030182918     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00340-X     Document Type: Article

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